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Kick off meeting 26th - 27th of August 05
Summary from previous texts on the role and function of the kick-off meeting:
This kick-off meeting will produce a limitied number of key themes in
adult education (examples might be: formal and nonformal language learning
for adults and underserved youth to stimulate the European dimension;
nonformal family learning; development of adult learning communities in
regions with special needs, IT and multimedia learning for teachers in
adult education etc.etc.).
The participating institutions might wish to join one or more of these
strategical thematic groups. The result should be a number of proposals
before the end of year 2005 or within the first 6 months of the year 2006
- dependent on the programme addressed.
The working groups will not only work on the content and project themes,
but also on directing the different project themes towards the most relevant
programme.
The role of the City Learning Net will be to coordinate these different
thematic groups, support the groups and partners' production of high quality
proposals, produce synergie between the the different projects, support
the dissemination of the projects - and first of all: integrating additional
resources from the different cities in the project. The
City Learning Net kick-off meeting could, then, be organized around
the following key issues (first draft of the agenda for the meeting):
- The idea of the network
and the establishment of the cooperation
- What is the EU Lifelong Learning programme about?
(themes, focuses, priorities, needs, subprogrammes, phases and deadlines)
- Which are the interests and needs of the network partners?
- Agreements on focuses and themes for the first phase of developing
projects within the City Learning Net
- How can we use the Grundtvig 4 framework to support our network?
The meeting will produce
a double strategy: developing the network and the projects with and
without the support from the Grundtvig 4 action.
Furthermore the meeting will produce a limited and focused number of
project
themes within the Lifelong Learning programme. The meeting will establish
a limited number af partner groups, who will start developing these
projects and integrating other non-network partners in the development.
Thus the kick-off meeting must produce concrete and practical results:
1. working on the Grundtvig 4 action with deadline on the 1th of November
2. establishing of partner groups around the important Lifelong Learning
themes discussed on the meeting, resulting in a number of quality projects
within 6-12 months.
Depending on the granting
of the Grundtvig 4 proposal, the next City Learning Net meeting should
be in Spring 2006, within the framework of a granted Grundtvig 4 Network,
or in Spring 2006 financed by the network institutions themselves, focusing
on the development of the different projects.
A most important issue of
the kick-off meeting should be:
- how can the network support the development of the different projects,
in which City Learning Net partners participate and act as coordinators?
The network partners should be able to benefit heavily from the total
ressources and competencies in the City Learning Net.
And the City Learning Net should make sure, that the project development
will be carried out by known and competent key partners from the network.
These network actions should result in a very significant improvement
of the projects and proposals being developed.
We suggest that the kick-off
meeting should take place somewhere in the middle of Europe to keep
travel costs down.
We furthermore suggest, that the dates of this kick off-meeting should
be
the 26th and 27th of August (working days).
Therefore we hereby invite the participating partners to consider the
possibility of hosting this City Learning Net kick-off meeting.
Please let us know, if your institution would like to host the meeting
– we will offer to organize the contents of the meeting and the
preparations of the discussions.
The participating institutions will, of course, be responsible for travelling
and accomodation arrangements and costs. The hosting institution might,
though, suggest a specific hotel and even offer to reserve the needed
rooms.
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